There is a difference to know "where to take a meal" and "who would bring you the meal".
Those are totally different ways of thinking about a problem.

You talked about the latter. Me and Flavius talked about the former.

Those are just different approaches.
For a side note, i believe the cat would favor to take meal on itself, without supervision and control, rather than "finding some sucker" that may deny it next treat.

For a side note, i believe the cat would favor to take meal on itself, without supervision and control, rather than "finding some sucker" that may deny it next treat.

naw. they may want the control as a backup, but they much prefer service. i have a cat door about 12" away from the front door. girl cat will routinely wait by the front door until i open it for her, rather than walk the additional 12" and have to push open a cat door with her personal nose.

besides - everyone knows, well-trained servants will do anything you want. there is no 'denying' the master.

OTOH my granny had a cat who opened the outer do by his foreskin. And in the village those doors do take force to open. When i was a child that was a quest even for me. To couple with winter they are heavy and they have significant friction agains their places. I barely remember him - was too little back then - and still cannot understand how a cat - just a cat - could even do it. Guess i messed the greatest show in my life.

The irony is that those pesky humans still had to move their asses to close the door, to avoid cold in the winter or rodents walking the kitchen in summertime. They were lazy to open the door for the cat, yet as they heard it flapped open - they were relatively quick to fix it